Its only savage danger now is the law. And, come on: Jobs!

Small Drug Arrests 2012

Small Drug Arrests 2012

Because the drug war is actually insane, not just seemingly insane. Alcohol abuse kills 75,000 people a year. Legal prescription drugs kill 100,000 people a year. Marijuana kills zero. The statistics for violent crime and accidental death follow the same pattern.

Because the drug war isn't just a failure. It's a spectacular failure. According to a handy summation in Wednesday's New York Times: "Despite billions spent on measures from spraying coco fields high in the Andes to jailing local dealers in Miami or Washington, a gram of cocaine cost about 16 percent less last year than it did in 2001."